MAGS December: "It's Me Again" (CLOSED)

[Gilbert]

Yeah. More awareness is good, but I don't think we need such a complicated system, and IMO it can even lead to annoyance. My reasonings (I'm at work at the moment and I haven't really read other people's comments, so similar things might have been said or taken care of):
1. Every activity in this forum is just kind of a hobby and is free to participate, and (in case of competitions with voting involved) there should not be any pressure for anyone to choose to vote. Just participate and vote if you really want to.
2. Sometimes people are aware of the activities but they just choose not to participate or vote for good enough reasons. Take me as an example. Very obviously I am well aware of the activities, but I don't have much free time at the moment, so I usually just download all the released AGS games (including MAGS games) without actually playing them. I only sparsely enter some of the smaller activities when I am interested and so I intentionally don't vote in any of the MAGS sessions. If there are a lot of visible reminders for me to do this and to do that it is simply an annoyance to me, rather than anything good.
3. Doing such a points system would pretty much evolve into an achievement system, so you will 'get a trophy by playing x games', 'get xxx useless points in rating xx games' and 'be called an active voter by casting a vote in xxx MAGS sessions'. This works in some of the much larger gaming sites or gaming services, but IMO this will not work here, considering the fact that our members are ones who have more specific interests and form a much smaller community, and the majority of which isn't even that active enough to make an achievement system successful.

So, like some people have mentioned, IMO a more visible link is enough already.

[arj0n]

Why not a clickable MAGS banner next to the Games banner or would that be too complicated cause the link would need to be changed roughly every month?

[Ponch]

Nice sprite Ghost. Anybody else interested? C'monnnnn!

Oh fine. If you're gonna pout, I'll make a MAGS game for you and leave it under your Christmas tree.  

Sadly, this turned out to be a lie. I have 2/3 of a game, but there's only five hours left until midnight and I'm going to a friend's house to ring in the new year. Sorry. I gave it my best shot, but with the holidays, the bake sale, and everything, I just ran out of time.

May I suggest we revisit this theme once more. "Third time's a charm" and all that. 

[Ghost]

Ya, my future self just told me it has become my past self without even getting a stab at a good game. This theme is cursed...

[Ponch]

Ya, my future self just told me it has become my past self without even getting a stab at a good game. This theme is cursed...

Then we must break the curse... By having this theme again! 

[Icey]

wait I got a game!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?h6jz1j1j1i107mb

[Atelier]

Yeah I agree this theme is cursed, even though it's so awesome. I don't think it was a good idea of mine to run it again, but maybe we might all meet it again in 2012 (providing some unforeseen crisis happens when we have no guidelines, which incidentally is what's happening right now)

If nobody can enter within 1 day, icey wins and becomes one of the illustrious grand-slam winners, with two wins in a row! Also icey what is your entry actually called?

I've been promising a questionnaire on MAGS for ages and will try my hardest to post it to gen gen. There have been some exciting and eventually palpable developments regarding MAGS' 2012 "renaissance", which I may or may not be required to keep secret (No seriously, I have no idea whether it's hush-hush ).

We've also got Maggies '11 sometime in the next couple of weeks so have a good year and party on.

[Ponch]

I'd need at least a week to finish my game. So unless Ghost can swoop in, it looks like Icey's done it again. Congrats, Icey. 

[Icey]

My Mags is a OSD game called 2 Dennis, 1 bug.

And hopefully a future thanks ponch. btw, if I win this would I be the first in AGS to win MAGS 3x in a row?

[Ghost]

So unless Ghost can swoop in, it looks like Icey's done it again. Congrats, Icey. 

I can swoop in, and even swoop on, it's the "delivering a game" where I'm bound to fail. So yeah, Icey rocks this one.

[Icey]

Cool, I'm on a killing spree!!! jk, Thanks guys. See you in the next MAGS.

[Radiant]

http://www.mediafire.com/?h6jz1j1j1i107mb

The link is broken. I get a 20-byte empty archive instead.

[spud]

Im a bit confused does new mags start on the first day of the month or the second week. Im quite eager to enter after my interest was reignited after playing the Ben Jordan series on PsP over xmas.

I checked the mags site but it still says november 2011

Sorry if this is a silly question i havent been active since 2004

[Atelier]

Sorry about that spud (and welcome back), I have loads of exams next week so I don't have much free time

The new topic is here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=45081.0

It's a great theme, I look forward to everybody's entries

I also declare icey the winner of December! And unfortunately icey, you have only won twice in a row, making you a bare minimum grand-slammer

[Icey]

right right. I won be default sadly the other time... but isn't it the same thing here?

Also if it is then that mean I won once, by default 2x, going...

nvm I get it now :]

[Kastchey]

I uh.. don't mean to start any fires here or become one of the Official Icey Bashers, but it bothers me a bit. Is a 15 seconds long cutscene really enough to win MAGS, even by default? I downloaded it from Icey's profile since the link he provided here is indeed broken, but the proper archive contained some open source material sewed together into a short dialogue cutscene, and that's it. Unless Icey had confused zip archives and posted an early version by mistake, his entry wasn't even a game and made a textbook example of breaking the "no rushed entries" rule.

[Icey]

Wait there was supposed to be this part where after the talking you could move around and if u step on the bug then there would be this big "explosion of the planet" cause OSD came back and changed the future. I could have sworn that I complied that into the game. But I think I was sorta rushing to compile it together and stuff cause my PC had shut off so I didn't know that got cut out of the game.

[Khris]

Even if that isn't a lie (and I strongly suspect it is), that's still a rushed non-entry.

Where's the download link to your actual entry? You have had more than enough time to fix a bad upload (and prove that you really had more than what's up on mediafire right now).

You didn't win this and don't get me started about your transparent lying.

[Radiant]

I'm not accusing anyone, but can I please see this entry so that I can form an opinion on it? So far all I've seen is one screenshot and one empty 20-byte zipfile.

(because if this was a joke, I did that years ago... )

[Icey]

Here is the link. http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1514

I am telling the truth and I will fix everything up after the bake sale cause I still have to get the source together for Ponch.

I don't rush to make games cause I can make a game like OSD: Last Boss or OSD: sorta 99% famous in a day. I sorta ran out of OSD ideas but the thing is last time I checked they are all just joke games and from the start they were never really men't to be long anyways. Ponch and I are the only ones to make at least 1 OSD game that can be played for more than an hour.

Now I am not bragging and I am not trying to start any trouble here, Just stating my opinion.